Jewish Civilization: The Jewish Historical Experience in a Comparative Perspective

By Eisenstadt, Shmuel Noah
State University of New York Press, 1992, Paperback, 314 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 079141096X

Explains why the best way to understand the Jewish historical experience is to look at Jewish people, not just as a religious or ethnic group or a nation.

This approach helps to explain the greatest riddle of Jewish civilization, namely, its continuity despite destruction, exile, and loss of political independence. (booknews.com)